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** After White House Run, De Blasio Faces Choices and Challenges ([link removed])
Half-Priced MetroCard Program Continues to Expand, But Frustrations Persist ([link removed])
How Many Displaced by Hurricane Maria are Still Living in New York City? ([link removed])
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** After White House Run, De Blasio Faces Choices and Challenges
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History offers little guidance for how Bill de Blasio should navigate his remaining time in office now that his presidential campaign is done.
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** City’s Half-Priced MetroCard Program Continues to Expand, But Frustrations Persist
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More than 150,000 residents meet the requirements for the current eligibility criteria, officials say. Of those, 76,021 have enrolled so far, and the city has been conducting outreach in the form of phone calls and letters.
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** Uptown Houses of Worship Join Movement to Shield Immigrants from ICE
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‘We are creating our own underground railroad of sanctuary spaces for undocumented immigrants targeted by ICE.’
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** Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
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Affordable homeownership was an ingredient in the prescription that brought New York City back from the dead. Now, some experts say, it is homeownership that needs saving in New York.
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** How Many Displaced by Hurricane Maria are Still Living in New York City?
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FEMA told City Limits that ‘a more detailed look at the NYC aspects/impacts’ would ‘best be handled by the city.’ However, neither the mayor’s office nor several of the city’s agencies were able to say.
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Opinion
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** NYC Should Learn from LA Before Building New Jails
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‘Los Angeles took a huge progressive step in reforming the criminal justice system by choosing to care first, and jail last.’
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** Lenox Hill Hospital Expansion Poses Risks to Local Community
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‘Over the next 10 years, those of us who live in Lenox Hill and nearby neighborhoods can expect constant waves of debris and pollutants to be unleashed by this gargantuan construction project.’
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Jobs
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** Pratt Institute
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** Director of Policy and Planning
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Pratt Center currently seeks to hire a Director of Policy and Planning (DPP). Under the guidance and supervision of the Deputy Director, the DPP will lead in the development of the Center's policy & advocacy initiatives and campaigns on issues including economic and workforce development, transportation, sustainability and environmental justice, land use, and community development. The DPP will supervise a staff of urban planners and GIS specialists who manage data-driven research projects, community planning technical assistance projects, and other collaborations with research and community-based partners.
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** Pratt Institute
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** Operations Manager
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Pratt Center currently seeks to hire an Operations Manager (OM). Under the guidance and supervision of the Director of Development & Operations, the OM will be responsible for cultivating collaboration and accountability across Pratt Center and developing effective management systems and procedures, including efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. The OM will work collaboratively with other members of the Pratt Center staff to create structures and processes that address operational challenges.
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** Riders Alliance
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** Executive Director
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The Riders Alliance is New York’s premier grassroots organization of subway and bus riders fighting for better public transit and a more just and inclusive city.
The organization’s new leader will work with staff, Board, and grassroots members to determine the next generation of advocacy campaigns and shape the future of the Riders Alliance and the movement for better public transit.
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** Community Service Society of New York
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** Campaign Liaison
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The Community Service Society (CSS) seeks a Campaign Liaison to help advance CSS’s statewide, coalition-based Campaign for Criminal Records Expungement. The campaign, undertaken in coordination with partner organization Legal Action Center, has as its ultimate goal the passage of automatic criminal records expungement legislation in New York State.
The Campaign Liaison will work directly with CSS Legal Department’s Community Organizer and other key staff to move this campaign forward, engaging in coalition-based organizing and advocacy efforts both in New York City and across the state.
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